Contributors
November 1979
Writers
Stephen Dobyns lives in Searsport, Maine. His third book of poems, Heat Death, will be published by Atheneum in 1980.
moreDavid M. Guy has signed a contract with Seaview Books to rewrite his novel, Football Dreams. He lives in Durham.
moreFrom July 1978: Syd Nisbett quit his job as a cook at the Pyewacket Cafe in Chapel Hill to go aroamin’.
moreSy Safransky is editor of THE SUN.
moreCheryl Schilling is a writer who now lives in Washington state, where she grew up. She has two sons. She says, of her start as a writer, “It was a strange experience at first to form thoughts in an organized way. It was like the tape had been erased when the beasts in the sea terrorized my homeland, my heart, as well as my own feminine instinct at self-preservation: in 10 years I was spoiled by the emotional excesses of being a housewife, followed by the intellectual deprivation of being cast in a soap opera world of husbands, wives, divorces, children, 19-year-old gurus and treacherous friends.”
morePeg Staley is a 57-year-old psychotherapist from Saunderstown, Rhode Island. She has five sons and lives in the country, near the ocean, with her husband Andrew, and two of her children. Slightly more than a year ago, she discovered she had cancer in her breast.
moreOn The Cover
Leah Palmer Preiss is a freelance artist and art student who lives in Northhampton, Mass.
moreEditor
Sy Safransky
Assistant Editor
Betsy Campbell
Contributing Editor
Priscilla Rich
Art Director
Madeline Goldstein
Artist
Leah Palmer Preiss
Typesetting
Loretta Annese/SunSerifs Typesetting Service
With help from
Mary Tom Bass
Jimmy Fleming
David Gernert
Mayapriya Long
Anne Rubin-Mojicca
Sadie Williams
Angela Wyman